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hello, this is bbc news. we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. first, the headlines. two people have been killed and at least 20 injured after a vehicle runs into crowds of people in the german city of muenster — police say the driver shot himself at the scene. german police are searching an address in the city, believed to be the home of the attacker. tributes are paid to m people from a junior ice hockey team killed after a bus carrying them collides with a lorry in western canada. 300 extra police are on patrol across london. it comes after six people are killed in shootings and stabbings in the last week. on meet the author, my guest is francisco cantu, a third—generation mexican american who became a us border patrol agent and tells his
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dory in the book line becomes a river. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the journalist and author yasmin alibhai—brown and kate andrews, director of news at the institute of economic affairs. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the observer reports that a new political party with up to £50m in funding is secretly in development. the mail on sunday claims the prime minister has been forced into a u—turn over police stop and search powers, following several weeks of violence on the capital's streets. the telegraph also leads with crime levels — the paper claims home secretary amber rudd has written an article claiming that cuts are not to blame for the rise in violence. the sunday times says sergei and yulia skripal could be offered
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new identities and given the opportunity to resettle in the united states, the sunday express has a story about the number of patients flying overseas for private medical treatment quadrupling in four years, apparently in response to long waits on the nhs. lots of different stories making the front pages, from what's next for the skripals to the recent violence on the capital's streets. let's see what our reviewers make of it all. let's start with the mail on sunday. theresa may's stop and search u—turn on gang wars. this is a difficult one because for years, as long as i remember, the case even, we have been arguing that stop and search
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has been unfairly targeting minority young people and it seemed discriminatory but now, i am with city can't on this because he has come out and said we do need to re—employee that strategy because we are in crisis in london and proper piece of the other places. so, although it is in effect discriminatory, i think the time has come for us to say that for a while, we need to reintroduce this. i wish we need to reintroduce this. i wish we didn't talk about u—turns. i think this is a sensible and necessary step at the moment. theresa may working with amber may —— amber rudd and the home office, looking into bring a variety of new plans, new task force is being announced on sunday, a crackdown on knives and paraphernalia associated with the anchorman the stop and search change. i take what you say
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very seriously. there have been criticism in the states as well, in new york, about the targeting of usually young black men. i think the key is the training of police office rs key is the training of police officers and making sure that if you see something, you can say something and the police can tackle it in the most thoughtful way possible, but a lot of this is about accountability and transparency. and trust. this is such a complicated issue. there was very interesting stuff that the mp for tuchman has been saying, david lambie, we need to look at families, in so many cases lambie, we need to look at families, in so many cases a lambie, we need to look at families, in so many cases a young mother raising children, the child has to be at home alone because the mother cannot take time off. the child is offered a pair of trainers to carry drugs. they'd stop it. it was the knife stabbing capital of europe. by
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using an integrated approach, youth groups trusts, family corporation and trusting the police, they have sorted this one. so i think it can be done. it isn'tjust one solution being. let's move to this front page of the sunday telegraph which has its own main story on the same scene. the home secretary amber rudd. again, looking at all the reasons why there has been this spate of killings in the capital and amber rudd on the defences about the numbers of uppies on the beat. she points to important evidence, when knife crime was at its highest, you had the highest amount of police office rs had the highest amount of police officers on the street so there isn't that correlation. obviously, she is on the defensive as people have been critical about cuts and if something bad happens in a certain area, it will be an obvious go to.
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the home office is laying out several different things they will put in place. i am disappointed that we haven't seen any mention of drug reform here. the reoffending rate for young people when they get out of prison is very high in the uk and many of the reasons they are locked up many of the reasons they are locked up has to do with drugs. usually non—violent crime, as rated to drugs, so if they are serious about tackling this issue, and it does seem tackling this issue, and it does seem they are, they should look at this. all this kind of drug use, particularly cocaine, as a kind of sophisticated to middle last drug, -- call sophisticated to middle last drug, —— call middle—class drug, the suppliers are using some of these kids and gangs as part of the conduits that this. actually, we'll have to think about this is in so—called after all. think about who is actually... maybe we need to go
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further and think about whether we have got the right drug policies in this country. absolutely, we do need to reconsider that. the other story telegraph, and others recently about violence. three dead, that includes the attacker, as a van rams people ina german the attacker, as a van rams people in a german city. the first thing i think is, don't let it be a muslim. each time these things happen you feel absolutely caught up in it, whether you are guilty —— you are not guilty or anything. it turns out it was a german national, i don't know what origin, that he had serious psychological problems, that is what we are getting out of germany. one of the things, again, we are so germany. one of the things, again, we are so omitted to a punitive approach all the time that we are not examining the psychological underbelly of so much of this violence. we attributed to religion
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oi’ violence. we attributed to religion or internet sites, there are some very damaged young people in our society is. he was middle-aged, nearing 50, and have serious psychological issues. i worry that as we discussed how we are going to cut back on knife crime in the uk, at the end of the day, we live in a time where you are in your car can cause a serious amount of damage. this is not the first tax we have seen of somebody ramming their car into people. there is no simple solution. we wouldn't ban cars, that would be the wrong thing to do, we wa nt would be the wrong thing to do, we want to prioritise freedom over security. it is a hard into tackle but when we look across the board to shootings in the states to incidents like this, it tends to be very psychological problematic men, and we have to address it. like this boy
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in manchester who did what he did and how many people died. if you look at his glory, he was at deeply psychologically troubled child who could have been helped at any point in his life but because of a whole series of things, wasn't. i hope we start looking at this more, i think. let's move onto the front page of the observer which has a slightly different take on a similar theme. violent youths should face social media ban. who is saying this? it's coming from mp sarahjones. she wants to do if the courts the power to ban the use of social media. what are we to do when young people put themselves in these terrible situations? i'm not convinced and i never have been that if someone watches youtube video that is the reason they will go out and start
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attempting to take lives. i think this is a bit of a reach and if it we re this is a bit of a reach and if it were to come into effect, you would have to monitor people very closely. very ha rd to have to monitor people very closely. very hard to enforce. i am for this asido very hard to enforce. i am for this as i do think the whole social media thing, notjust on young people, the culture hasn't caught up with this than on. there has to be some kind of regulation, some kind of self discipline. maybe that facebook is in more trouble than it was to be, something will happen. the young kids are so smart. they will find any which way to get back into the circles. i'm not convinced it will work. the observer's others dory, we haven't mentioned brexit all evening. we think it is belated. fife —— evening. we think it is belated. fife -- £50 evening. we think it is belated. fife —— £50 million for a new party. who's new party is this? i think it isa who's new party is this? i think it is a labour in fact they tell us, who is first dated by the politician
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and the tribal nature of politics. —— frustrated by the tribal nature of politics. it is led by simon franks, and has he —— he has had starved mothers working on this. i'm at sure this is what we need. if thatis at sure this is what we need. if that is how he was to spend his money, who are we to stop him?m was said to be a project for community activism, rather than a political party. some late —— something like this could be good. the polarisation and abates its much worse. this idea of a format tool reads donor and labour donor coming together and doing across party initiative sounds great but my
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concern is they want meaningful change and we don't have any details on this article but i do worry it won't target the right people, it is still very middle—class, upper—class intellectuals, it is not totally obvious to me that they are hitting the pulse of what people out there are feeling. but possibly looking over the channel at what emmanuel macron has done. there are so many people in this country and this focus on a section of society which is feeling disgruntled as the only people who now have a voice is problematic for me. not the only people who have a voice. for example, i have never known so much in yourface racism, it is back again, all of us are feeling the burden. that group also needs to be taken seriously. there are other people who feel betrayed by the way the whole debate has gone. i do
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think the focus on certain groups of tuition people, white working classes, to the exclusion of black working classes, is fundamentally flawed. i agree, we need to be more inclusive, ijust wonder it this group will do it. let's get to a couple of other front pages. the sunday times convert to victims of the salisbury nerve agent attack. they have been offered new identities. i'm so troubled by this. i have been away for two weeks, i do look at the news or anything. something doesn't we'll write about this to me any more. and now that the cia is stepping in, i don't know, i am very troubled.|j the cia is stepping in, i don't know, i am very troubled. i think they have to. the scribble family are already being pressured by the russian and busy to come forward and cooperate them, there has been a
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major push back on them and i think both britain and the united states and other partner countries are very concerned about their immediate safety. it is not an ideal situation but i think it is probably a necessary thing to do and i'm pleased to see that countries that say they stand up for human rights are going to protect these lies. next to that story, today presenters rage over pay gaps, a story that has been going on for many months now, this particular story about sarah montague. she says she was incandescent with rage when she found out about the gender pay gap within the bbc. the conversation was started when she removed herself from job as international editor in china. i feel for both sarah
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